Visiting the Birthplace of PlanetVac

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Space is hard. Sample collection and return is harder still. That’s why the radically-simplified PlanetVac system from Honeybee Robotics is so intriguing. Join Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts and host Mat Kaplan on a tour of Honeybee that includes a PlanetVac demo. Bruce returns for this week’s What’s Up jaunt around the night sky. Planetary Society Digital Editor Jason Davis share big news about the LightSail 2 solar sail and the next SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch. Learn more about this week’s topics and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0307-planetvac-honeybee-tour.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.9	with us here is this week's show. Join us for a visit to the birthplace of
1:08.5	PlanetVac this week on planetary radio.
1:21.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
1:23.0	PlanetVac, a way to collect samples on other worlds that uses little more
1:28.0	than compressed gas and one moving part.
1:31.0	Bruce Bats and I will drop by Honeybee robotics for a tour with two of the young engineers
1:37.0	that are creating this cool new device, and Bruce will rejoin us for what's up naturally.
1:43.2	Have you heard?
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